#FOSDEM

@sam @dansup I’m positive this thought came up at #FOSDEM this year too…

https://spectra.video/w/7hsRkrevhuTyV1q1qxkPjM

"Centralised systems were designed with the best of intentions, but were turned against us anyway. And peer-to-peer systems will be exactly the same.

How do we make the next generation of protocols more difficult to weaponise?”

Here’s a clean recording of my #FOSDEM talk “Willow - Protocols for an uncertain future”. This talk was a real labour of love, hope you enjoy it!!!

https://spectra.video/w/7hsRkrevhuTyV1q1qxkPjM

"Centralised systems were designed with the best of intentions, but were turned against us anyway. And peer-to-peer systems will be exactly the same.

How do we make the next generation of protocols more difficult to weaponise?”

Here’s a clean recording of my #FOSDEM talk “Willow - Protocols for an uncertain future”. This talk was a real labour of love, hope you enjoy it!!!

Hi @rafaelmartins @jwildeboer,
I made an even more radical experiment (installing doesn't require #root) and brought it to alpha: https://Seppo.mro.name #Seppo #NGI #NLNet
I held several talks, but have recordings in german only, e.g. https://fair.tube/w/jgF8cFw5u4K1puFNscWcQh
Or english #slides from #fosdem 2025: https://marcus.rohrmoser.name/talks/2025/offdem/slides.pdf

Hi @rafaelmartins @jwildeboer,
I made an even more radical experiment (installing doesn't require #root) and brought it to alpha: https://Seppo.mro.name #Seppo #NGI #NLNet
I held several talks, but have recordings in german only, e.g. https://fair.tube/w/jgF8cFw5u4K1puFNscWcQh
Or english #slides from #fosdem 2025: https://marcus.rohrmoser.name/talks/2025/offdem/slides.pdf

Dear Fedi friends,

I had the honor of being interviewed for @hyde's series #OverUnder.

🔗​: https://lazybea.rs/ovr-069/

Mentioned in the interview: #FOSDEM
@yunohost
@gotosocial
@veronica
#Jellyfin
@timbl
#LEGO
& pizza!

Thank you so much for this wonderful opportunity ​ ❤️​

Dear Fedi friends,

I had the honor of being interviewed for @hyde's series #OverUnder.

🔗​: https://lazybea.rs/ovr-069/

Mentioned in the interview: #FOSDEM
@yunohost
@gotosocial
@veronica
#Jellyfin
@timbl
#LEGO
& pizza!

Thank you so much for this wonderful opportunity ​ ❤️​

#OverUnder 069 with @elena

She shares her thoughts about #FOSDEM, #Jellyfin, #Yunohost, #LEGO, and, being Italian, I have to ask her about #Pizzas.

She also replied to @daj 's question.

She recommended two #books I will definitely read.

#bloggers #bookstodon #book #blog #fediverse #toys #streaming #movies #music #bloggers #mastodon

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-069

Following the Railways and Open Transport track at #FOSDEM 2024 #Transitous got started. Just two years later Transitous is mentioned in more than a fourth of the talks there today.

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/railways-and-open-transport/

@andypiper The principles are all there and really change how we work with machines.

I did a session at #fosdem as a birds of a feather session about it.

@notecharlie @goetz @tschaefer @Oskar456 yep. I had a stupid idea and everyone was like "do it". Same thing that happened when I switched to NAT64 on the main #FOSDEM network way back.

@tschaefer I heard that #FOSDEM will be #IPv6only next time.
Please prepare you app or website.

Thank you @Oskar456 for pursuing and pushing this.

Ohyes.. Before we forget it.. At #FOSDEM, we attended a workshop on the European Social Web organised by @evan of @SocialWebFoundation. The group agreed that social sovereignty in Europe depends on interoperability, decentralisation, open standards, and open source. A vision paper is in progress and will be released soon. Preludes were shared at #2MR by @michael and @bjoernsta.

#FediVariety #Fediverse #OpenWeb #SocialWeb #OpenSocialWeb #ActivityPub #JugglingTheFediverse
https://www.fedivariety.org/blog/european-social-stack

Ohyes.. Before we forget it.. At #FOSDEM, we attended a workshop on the European Social Web organised by @evan of @SocialWebFoundation. The group agreed that social sovereignty in Europe depends on interoperability, decentralisation, open standards, and open source. A vision paper is in progress and will be released soon. Preludes were shared at #2MR by @michael and @bjoernsta.

#FediVariety #Fediverse #OpenWeb #SocialWeb #OpenSocialWeb #ActivityPub #JugglingTheFediverse
https://www.fedivariety.org/blog/european-social-stack

Ohyes.. Before we forget it.. At #FOSDEM, we attended a workshop on the European Social Web organised by @evan of @SocialWebFoundation. The group agreed that social sovereignty in Europe depends on interoperability, decentralisation, open standards, and open source. A vision paper is in progress and will be released soon. Preludes were shared at #2MR by @michael and @bjoernsta.

#FediVariety #Fediverse #OpenWeb #SocialWeb #OpenSocialWeb #ActivityPub #JugglingTheFediverse
https://www.fedivariety.org/blog/european-social-stack

Person on stage arguing that we need Fediverse messaging apps.

That more people would use the Fediverse if they existed.

#Fediverse #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #SocialWeb #SocialWebFOSDEM #SocialWebFOSDEM2026

@russss If only there was a conference for conference organizers; we could call it #confconf! ;)

But in all seriousness, more conferences are starting to steal our #FOSDEM devroom concept and it's working really well for them; e.g. #IndiaFOSS did so quite successfully last year. Never been at #emf #emfcamp so I don't know the programme and space availability, of course.

We are a little bit late to the party, but on the 1. May we celebrated #lauti's first anniversary 🥳.
This year was crazy, we got in touch with so many amazing people a long the way. We did our first talk at the #39c3 self organized session of @techfrombelow@chaos.social.
We visited #fosdem with our friends from @Bonfire where they announced our collaboration working on #events in the #fediverse.
We are just getting started, SSO is around the corner and we are working on #activitypub at the moment.
For more updates take a look at our last blog post
lauti.org/blog/lauti-updates...

We are a little bit late to the party, but on the 1. May we celebrated #lauti's first anniversary 🥳.
This year was crazy, we got in touch with so many amazing people a long the way. We did our first talk at the #39c3 self organized session of @techfrombelow@chaos.social.
We visited #fosdem with our friends from @Bonfire where they announced our collaboration working on #events in the #fediverse.
We are just getting started, SSO is around the corner and we are working on #activitypub at the moment.
For more updates take a look at our last blog post
lauti.org/blog/lauti-updates...

We are a little bit late to the party, but on the 1. May we celebrated #lauti's first anniversary 🥳.
This year was crazy, we got in touch with so many amazing people a long the way. We did our first talk at the #39c3 self organized session of @techfrombelow@chaos.social.
We visited #fosdem with our friends from @Bonfire where they announced our collaboration working on #events in the #fediverse.
We are just getting started, SSO is around the corner and we are working on #activitypub at the moment.
For more updates take a look at our last blog post
lauti.org/blog/lauti-updates...

We are a little bit late to the party, but on the 1. May we celebrated #lauti's first anniversary 🥳.
This year was crazy, we got in touch with so many amazing people a long the way. We did our first talk at the #39c3 self organized session of @techfrombelow@chaos.social.
We visited #fosdem with our friends from @Bonfire where they announced our collaboration working on #events in the #fediverse.
We are just getting started, SSO is around the corner and we are working on #activitypub at the moment.
For more updates take a look at our last blog post
lauti.org/blog/lauti-updates...

 Next #fosdem is too far away, you can see it yet. instead you can watch all the missed talks from the recordings: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/events/  

 Next #fosdem is too far away, you can see it yet. instead you can watch all the missed talks from the recordings: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/events/  

(4/5)…It's easy to forget that the enemy to software freedom is *not* proprietary systems' *users*, rather those who *sell* such systems *for profit*. #LLM-backed gen-#AI proprietary systems are simply the latest tech fad (like, say, Web 2.0 & AJAX).
@karen & I keynoted 2x at #FOSDEM & 1x at LCA about the importance of — as social workers say — “meeting people where they are”:
https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/interviews/bradley-m-kuhn-karen-sandler/
https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/full_software_freedom/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n55WClalwHo
https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/open_source_won/

Cc: @silverwizard @josh

@bagder @Prometheus @grafana fwiw, the dogshit non- software spam for #fosdem @fosdem is also higher quality now. Yay.

Hello Fedi! We are Matrix Community Events, a loose group of @matrix enthusiasts interested in representing Matrix at events and running our own events for the community. Our previous adventures include: Matrix Community Summit #MCS, #FrOSCon, c3, #FOSDEM, #GPN, #MRMCD, Matrix Workations, #MatrixConf, CCCamp, #WHY2025, and 8+ local meetups/Stammtische. You can learn more at https://matrix-community.events.

Follow this account for news about MCS, local meetups, chaos events, and more!

Hello Fedi! We are Matrix Community Events, a loose group of @matrix enthusiasts interested in representing Matrix at events and running our own events for the community. Our previous adventures include: Matrix Community Summit #MCS, #FrOSCon, c3, #FOSDEM, #GPN, #MRMCD, Matrix Workations, #MatrixConf, CCCamp, #WHY2025, and 8+ local meetups/Stammtische. You can learn more at https://matrix-community.events.

Follow this account for news about MCS, local meetups, chaos events, and more!

Heading to #fosdem the biggest #opensource gathering! I’ll probably be hanging out most of the time at the stand on Level 2, Building K (Open Culture Foundation + Taiwan Open Source Community) with the #COSCUP crew

The talks from @centos@fosstodon.org @centos@bird.makeup #Connect #Connect2026 held before #FOSDEM is now up for free on #Youtube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuRtbOXpVDjAvQhBvz0i3EGI8SgyWBtQO

@fedora @almalinux @rockylinux @redhat@hachyderm.io @redhat@bird.makeup @redhatopen @fosdem

The talks from @centos@fosstodon.org @centos@bird.makeup #Connect #Connect2026 held before #FOSDEM is now up for free on #Youtube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuRtbOXpVDjAvQhBvz0i3EGI8SgyWBtQO

@fedora @almalinux @rockylinux @redhat@hachyderm.io @redhat@bird.makeup @redhatopen @fosdem

如何快速获得100个转嘟？

1. 关注@_followback@tags.pub
2. 给你的帖子打上100个tag
3. 发布帖子，就会有100个 xxx@tags.pub 转发了（

这个项目在fosdem有讲，但是还看了直播（
话说为什么要做这个项目呢？mastodon可以关注hashtag的

Links：
https://tags.pub
https://github.com/social-web-foundation/tags.pub
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/WNDQUQ-tags-pub

#hashtag #tagspub #fosdem #fediverse

Tags.Pub

I spoke with @evan at #Fosdem about his project tags.pub. It sounded like a good idea, so we enabled their relay on our server to see how it works.

In Mastodon, you can follow hashtags. This shows all posts with this tag, known to your server, in your timeline. But it will only show the posts known by your server. (1/3)

Our second #FOSDEM talk is about to start: Hocuri talks about the upcoming #multirelay profiles, which use more than one address to exchange messages!

Live Stream is here:
https://live.fosdem.org/watch/ud2218a

Recording will be available here later: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/3F9VTU-deltachat-chatmail-relays-multi-transport/

My trip finally begins : Tonight, the 453 will bring me in a comfortable wagon-lits to Berlin, the first stop of my #FOSSRail trip from 🇧🇪 Brussels to 🇹🇭 Bangkok connecting the FOSDEM with the FOSSASIA by train.

I will spend the next two weeks on trains across 12 countries and 11.000 km on rails.

May the games begin ✊🏽.

#FOSSRail #FOSDEM #FOSSASIA #CrossBorderRail #TeamNightTrain

With my #FOSDEM, #ConfConf, and many other hats on:

We will be organizing another https://ConfConf.org ! An (un)conference about organizing conferences.

6th and 7th of June in #Sofia, #Bulgaria

Same as last year, we will be focusing on #OpenSource and #Community conferences. We will either remain invite -only or closely review all registrations to make sure it's community people.

1/n

Last year, we brought together #CCC, #COSCUP, #eventinfra, #FOSDEM, #FOSS4All Korea, #FOSSASIA, #FOSSNorth, #IndiaFOSS and I am certainly forgetting several.

If in doubt, poke me if you'd fit.

And please help us: like a conference? Make their organizers aware of this.

And, as always, #retoot appreciated!

Last year, we brought together #CCC, #COSCUP, #eventinfra, #FOSDEM, #FOSS4All Korea, #FOSSASIA, #FOSSNorth, #IndiaFOSS and I am certainly forgetting several.

If in doubt, poke me if you'd fit.

And please help us: like a conference? Make their organizers aware of this.

And, as always, #retoot appreciated!

Last year, we brought together #CCC, #COSCUP, #eventinfra, #FOSDEM, #FOSS4All Korea, #FOSSASIA, #FOSSNorth, #IndiaFOSS and I am certainly forgetting several.

If in doubt, poke me if you'd fit.

And please help us: like a conference? Make their organizers aware of this.

And, as always, #retoot appreciated!

With my #FOSDEM, #ConfConf, and many other hats on:

We will be organizing another https://ConfConf.org ! An (un)conference about organizing conferences.

6th and 7th of June in #Sofia, #Bulgaria

Same as last year, we will be focusing on #OpenSource and #Community conferences. We will either remain invite -only or closely review all registrations to make sure it's community people.

1/n

Last year, we brought together #CCC, #COSCUP, #eventinfra, #FOSDEM, #FOSS4All Korea, #FOSSASIA, #FOSSNorth, #IndiaFOSS and I am certainly forgetting several.

If in doubt, poke me if you'd fit.

And please help us: like a conference? Make their organizers aware of this.

And, as always, #retoot appreciated!

With my #FOSDEM, #ConfConf, and many other hats on:

We will be organizing another https://ConfConf.org ! An (un)conference about organizing conferences.

6th and 7th of June in #Sofia, #Bulgaria

Same as last year, we will be focusing on #OpenSource and #Community conferences. We will either remain invite -only or closely review all registrations to make sure it's community people.

1/n

Great language support means nothing without great tooling. Watch @jdevlieghere show how LLDB brings first-class debugging to Swift on WebAssembly. https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/87ZLQV-wasm-debugging-lldb/ #Wasm #fosdem

Even more than Gleam community the AS/AP based fediverse faces existential threats where it comes to the promise to lead us towards "the future of social networking", a peopleverse. And #AI poses high danger risks that must be known, so we can anticipate and mitigate them timely.

But above all we have to find ways to constructively collaborate with each in this chaotic grassroots environment we are part of.

#Collaboration and #cocreation at scale, organic growth and sustainable evolution are applied research areas of Social coding commons, where participants add value while working on their own solutions, following their self-interests in alignment with those of other people

To folks who are interested in the general subject matter I addressed above, I recommend watching the talk given by Michiel Leenaars of @nlnet at #FOSDEM last month:

"FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI" by @michiel

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/FE7ULY-foss-in-times-of-war-scarcity-and-ai/

#SX #SocialCoding #fediverse #ActivityPub #SocialWeb

The #FOSDEM talk from @haubles and myself about Mastodon’s upcoming community governance plans; our vision, mission and values; and updates to the server recommendations, is now available to watch. I was honoured to be asked to co-present this session.

More to come on all of these topics over the coming weeks, on our blog and on the main project account.

I’ll be posting about the other sessions from the #SocialWeb Devroom over the next few weeks, as well.

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HJYRFF-tending-the-herd/

can someone share a speakers picture of the #FOSDEM #socialweb dev room?

#followerpower #fediverse

🆕 blog! “The cost of running OpenBenches.org”

After my recent presentation at FOSDEM, someone asked a pretty reasonable question. What does it cost to run OpenBenches?

It is, thankfully, surprisingly cheap! In part, that's because it is a relatively simple tech stack - PHP, MySQL, a couple of API calls to external services. It was designed to be as low cost while …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/the-cost-of-running-openbenches-org/
⸻
#fosdem #foss #money #OpenBenches

Some folks at #FOSDEM tried to buy the makeshift hats one of our team members brought, so I arranged for this prototype of an official hat to be made. It's a fisherman beanie with our logo embroidered. I'm trying to gauge interest here. Is this something you'd buy? (Poll in follow-up post)

Some folks at #FOSDEM tried to buy the makeshift hats one of our team members brought, so I arranged for this prototype of an official hat to be made. It's a fisherman beanie with our logo embroidered. I'm trying to gauge interest here. Is this something you'd buy? (Poll in follow-up post)

Some folks at #FOSDEM tried to buy the makeshift hats one of our team members brought, so I arranged for this prototype of an official hat to be made. It's a fisherman beanie with our logo embroidered. I'm trying to gauge interest here. Is this something you'd buy? (Poll in follow-up post)

Some folks at #FOSDEM tried to buy the makeshift hats one of our team members brought, so I arranged for this prototype of an official hat to be made. It's a fisherman beanie with our logo embroidered. I'm trying to gauge interest here. Is this something you'd buy? (Poll in follow-up post)

Some folks at #FOSDEM tried to buy the makeshift hats one of our team members brought, so I arranged for this prototype of an official hat to be made. It's a fisherman beanie with our logo embroidered. I'm trying to gauge interest here. Is this something you'd buy? (Poll in follow-up post)

Great presentation by @pierres on what @openfoodfacts has been up to, and how they are weighting on the #FoodIndustry to produce more healthy and environmentally friendly food 👏 👏 👏

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QZHWK9-open_food_facts_getting_together_to_reduce_health_and_environmental_impacts_of_c/

@douginamug @nemobis @yala @pluralistic see what the metadata nerd hubris can do! 😁

#openfoodfacts #opendata #fosdem

@azonenberg related: I label the ports for the #FOSDEM onto the switches in bright orange. Doesn't stop the same people asking me the same question every year, but I don't need to look it up, just read it off the thing and done.

document-in-place is an absolute superpower

💡 In Feb 2026, devs, researchers & public interest techies met in Brussels for #FOSDEM, Europe’s largest free & open source software conference. 🌐

@NGICommons joined to discuss digital commons & how public authorities can collaborate with open source communities.

Please read our highlights: https://commons.ngi.eu/2026/02/18/highlights-from-fosdem-2026/

📺 Watch it here: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/EZB7MP-power_to_the_public_stack_governing_europes_digital_commons/

#DigitalCommons #OpenSource #PublicTech #NGICommons #DigitalSovereignty

OpenBenches at FOSDEM

At the recent FOSDEM, I did a very quick lightning talk about our OpenBenches project.

Sadly, despite the best efforts of the AV team, the video had a missing section. I took my own audio recording and zipkid took some photos, so I was able to recreate it using the Flowblade video editor.

Enjoy!

Many thanks to Edward Betts for running the dev room and providing the display laptop.

On our way home from #FOSDEM. Met so many amazing people form the #fediverse community. Thanks to everyone for the discussions on events federation and more. @linos @Bonfire @mayel @ivan @liaizon @lesion @michael the folks from Mobilizion and anyone I forgot.

Learning about the upcoming git-history(1) command alone would have been worth this year #FOSDEM trip. It's heavily inspired by #Jujutsu UX and aims to implement in native #Git its most notable commands.

#FOSDEM tell the EU why #OpenSource matters. Before Tuesday fill in the input opportunity for the:

European Open Digital Ecosystems

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems_en

🆕 blog! “OpenBenches at FOSDEM”

At the recent FOSDEM, I did a very quick lightning talk about our OpenBenches project.

Sadly, despite the best efforts of the AV team, the video had a missing section. I took my own audio recording and zipkid took some photos, so I was able to recreate it using the Flowblade video editor.

Enjoy!

Many thanks to Edward Betts for running the dev room and…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/openbenches-at-fosdem/
⸻
#fosdem #OpenBenches

The recording of my #FOSDEM talk (~25 minutes) on Rockchip mainlining is now available! #linux #uboot

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/KLFW73-no-line-like-mainline-rockchip/

🆕 blog! “OpenBenches at FOSDEM”

At the recent FOSDEM, I did a very quick lightning talk about our OpenBenches project.

Sadly, despite the best efforts of the AV team, the video had a missing section. I took my own audio recording and zipkid took some photos, so I was able to recreate it using the Flowblade video editor.

Enjoy!

Many thanks to Edward Betts for running the dev room and…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/openbenches-at-fosdem/
⸻
#fosdem #OpenBenches

OpenBenches at FOSDEM

At the recent FOSDEM, I did a very quick lightning talk about our OpenBenches project.

Sadly, despite the best efforts of the AV team, the video had a missing section. I took my own audio recording and zipkid took some photos, so I was able to recreate it using the Flowblade video editor.

Enjoy!

Many thanks to Edward Betts for running the dev room and providing the display laptop.

The recordings of our #FOSDEM talks are both released by now :)

Saturday's talk about #autocrypt2:
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/TV7GCC-autocrypt_2_post-quantum-cryptography_and_reliable_deletion_forward-secrecy/

Sunday's talk about the #multirelay future:
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/3F9VTU-deltachat-chatmail-relays-multi-transport/
#DeltaChat #Chatmail

@django @evan @liaizon

Hey, this is great. It is so nice to see the uptick of interest in the #C2S part of #ActivityPub. Very uplifting and gives me hope for the future of #fediverse.

I really liked your #FOSDEM presentation, and thank you for mentioning my humble list. They are just notes atm, but I will try to keep them up-to-date. I just made a bunch of updates..

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-experience/issues/130

Would love to hear more on what are the particular plans and goals for your project in the near future?

@django @evan @liaizon

PS. For people who haven't seen it yet, the #FOSDEM presentation is at:

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QK7XSV-activitypub-c2s/

@django @evan @liaizon

Hey, this is great. It is so nice to see the uptick of interest in the #C2S part of #ActivityPub. Very uplifting and gives me hope for the future of #fediverse.

I really liked your #FOSDEM presentation, and thank you for mentioning my humble list. They are just notes atm, but I will try to keep them up-to-date. I just made a bunch of updates..

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-experience/issues/130

Would love to hear more on what are the particular plans and goals for your project in the near future?

@virtualpierogi @sri @jsalvador @ben

Unfortunately there's a new threat, and it was addressed in the #FOSDEM keynote speech by @michiel of @nlnet .. and that is the mad dash to incorporate #AI into everything and vibe-code stuff together in a heartbeat.

I think this is particular bad for the fediverse #SocialWeb still lacking its robust foundations. The #LLM's will have no problem figuring out how to mix'n mash the existing protocol decay and tech debt into new applications that are rushed into production. Finally non-protocol-experts are enable on the ecosystem and can onboard themselves without involving themselves in endless plumbing of the most low-level technical implemention details of #ActivityPub devs.

But the ecosystem will rot and decay as a result of it. Furthermore if a slew of AI-generated fedi apps are launched in quick succession and some of them find good uptake (until they break in unexpected ways), it will serve to attract unwanted corporate attention I'm afraid.

Btw, this is a good opportunity to once more thank @nlnet for their years-long hard work and support of the social web, and the fediverse in particular. I counted 86 fine social web R&D projects who have received @NGIZero and other @ngi support from the #EU over the past couple of years.

At the bottom of the article I mention the urgent #FOSDEM talk and call-to-action by @michiel and also the 2019 keynote given by @darius at the #ActivityPub Conference in Prague on "How to play and win our own game" independent of #BigTech and corporate hypercapitalist shenanigans.

@ben

Next year, #FOSDEM will be IPv6 only.

So Github will break, as it is IPv4 only (unless they get their act together).

@T_X @axx so for #FOSDEM 2027, I had another stupid idea everyone insisted was good: it will be #IPv6-only on the main network. The dual stack will get a yearly name change to prevent auto-reconnect. We want people on v6-only and break stuff left and right. Every. Single. Year.

And if #GitHub is not on v6 by next year, trust me, they will put _something_ in place very quickly.

@tschaefer @T_X @axx rumor has it, #GitHub saw my #FOSDEM announcement. Including the helpful offer to CNAME to #codeberg which supports #IPv6

@T_X @axx so for #FOSDEM 2027, I had another stupid idea everyone insisted was good: it will be #IPv6-only on the main network. The dual stack will get a yearly name change to prevent auto-reconnect. We want people on v6-only and break stuff left and right. Every. Single. Year.

And if #GitHub is not on v6 by next year, trust me, they will put _something_ in place very quickly.

@T_X @axx I made the switch to #NAT64-only on the default network of #FOSDEM 13(?) years ago. It broke So. Much. Stuff.

I knew the former maintainer of the network tooling from the Linux Kernel Summit, and ran into him by chance that year. #Ubuntu was completely broken on NAT64-only, it did not even bring up the network interfaces, and we sent people who came to the NOC to their booth.

I also sent that former maintainer over there.

They fixed things very quickly.

Someone at #FOSDEM asked us to put some promotional materials on our website that they could print for an event. There is now a section for that on the Branding page with our first poster:

https://joinmastodon.org/branding

Hey, #hachyderm --

We totally forgot to publish the availability of the `hachyderm.general` #ansible collection we announced at #fosdem a few weeks ago!

We started by publishing our #postgresql roles that we use to keep the Hachyderm database servers happy and healthy. Included are modules to:

- build postgresql servers in both primary and replica configurations
- configure pgbackrest for full and incremental backups
- publish metrics for consumption by prometheus

Modules are available on Ansible Galaxy at https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/hachyderm/general/.

Happy Hachyderming (and Ansible-ing and postgresql-ing)!

Hey, #hachyderm --

We totally forgot to publish the availability of the `hachyderm.general` #ansible collection we announced at #fosdem a few weeks ago!

We started by publishing our #postgresql roles that we use to keep the Hachyderm database servers happy and healthy. Included are modules to:

- build postgresql servers in both primary and replica configurations
- configure pgbackrest for full and incremental backups
- publish metrics for consumption by prometheus

Modules are available on Ansible Galaxy at https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/hachyderm/general/.

Happy Hachyderming (and Ansible-ing and postgresql-ing)!

The recordings of our #FOSDEM talks are both released by now :)

Saturday's talk about #autocrypt2:
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/TV7GCC-autocrypt_2_post-quantum-cryptography_and_reliable_deletion_forward-secrecy/

Sunday's talk about the #multirelay future:
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/3F9VTU-deltachat-chatmail-relays-multi-transport/
#DeltaChat #Chatmail

I don’t usually review hardware publicly but my personal #FOSDEM highlight forced my hand. I checked out the mecha comet meetup, and all I can say is: This thing is exceptionally well‑designed. Multiple iterations and each one smarter than the last. #comet #mechaComet

During #FOSDEM I rediscovered #MechaComet. Cool #Linux 🐧 #handheld! It is currently running a #Kickstarter. So grab yours, while you can and if you want to know why I am so excited about it, check my blog 😉 https://michal.hrusecky.net/2026/02/mecha-comet/

I don’t usually review hardware publicly but my personal #FOSDEM highlight forced my hand. I checked out the mecha comet meetup, and all I can say is: This thing is exceptionally well‑designed. Multiple iterations and each one smarter than the last. #comet #mechaComet

Another #cool #hardware gadget I got to try toady on #FOSDEM - #MechaComet! Feels amazing!

Thank you again, @_elena and @sturmsucht

You two made #FOSDEM better because of your work!

The GPIO extension is one of our absolute favorites!

Direct access to the underlying 40 GPIOs and DIY ready.

More details here: https://developers.mecha.so/docs/extensions/io-breakout

This picture is from our booth at #FOSDEM 🌟

Another #cool #hardware gadget I got to try toady on #FOSDEM - #MechaComet! Feels amazing!

I don’t usually review hardware publicly but my personal #FOSDEM highlight forced my hand. I checked out the mecha comet meetup, and all I can say is: This thing is exceptionally well‑designed. Multiple iterations and each one smarter than the last. #comet #mechaComet

@zev333 to expand on the #FOSDEM ask: all this happens through a web Interface. You don't need to download or install anything, just open a link, watch a few minutes of video, click a few buttons, done

The cost of running OpenBenches.org

After my recent presentation at FOSDEM, someone asked a pretty reasonable question. What does it cost to run OpenBenches?

It is, thankfully, surprisingly cheap! In part, that's because it is a relatively simple tech stack - PHP, MySQL, a couple of API calls to external services. It was designed to be as low cost while also being useful. Here's the breakdown:

Hosting - £171 per year

Our biggest expense but, I think, our most reasonable. Krystal charges around £342 for a 2 year contract. That includes unlimited bandwidth and storage, as well as the domain name. We have nearly 400GB of photos and bot scraping means we can use over 900GB of bandwidth per month - so Krystal give us a rather good deal!

Use this affiliate link and code EDENT to get a small discount.

Stadia Maps - US$20 / month

Geocoding is surprisingly hard to do locally. We need to transform latitude and longitude into addresses, and then back again. Stadia Maps cost about the same as our hosting! What's rather annoying is that we only use about half the API calls in our plan. We need to find a cheaper solution.

Mapping - Free!

When we used Stadia for drawing maps, we regularly ran over our quota. So we switched to OpenFreeMap which produces gorgeous interactive maps.

The service has been rock solid and very responsive to bugs on GitHub.

Logo - US$5

I'm not a good designer, so we bought a logo from The Noun Project and then coloured it in. Bargain for a fiver!

Image CDN - Free!

Although we have unlimited bandwidth with Krystal, we're only located in one region - the UK. WeServ. It's also pointless serving full resolution images to small screens.

So WeServ offers free image resizing and global CDNs. Personally, I'm not a fan of CloudFlare (their CDN partner) so I'm looking to change provider.

OCR - Free!

People don't want to type in the inscription of the photo, so we use Google Cloud Vision.

We send less than 1,000 requests per month - so we're inside their free tier. If we get more popular, that'll get more expensive. But I don't know of a local-first OCR which is as good as Google's. Sadly, Tesseract is rubbish for extracting text from photos.

Authentication - Free!

We don't want to store anyone's passwords. The free tier of Auth0 allows us to do social login for up to 25,000 monthly users. Which is more than enough for us.

Sadly, Auth0 don't support the Fediverse, so I had to build my own "Log-in with Mastodon" service.

As much as we'd like to run social login locally, we simply don't want to be responsible for securing users' details & API keys.

Software - Free!

As per the OpenBenches colophon we use a lot of cool FOSS. Small JS libraries, big PHP frameworks, and everything in between.

Income

Thanks to GitHub Sponsors we make a whopping US$3 per month!

Similarly, our OpenCollective Sponsors brings in about £3 per month.

Merchandising! You can buy OpenBenches branded t-shirts, mugs, and hats. That nets us about £20 per year

Call it roughly £80 income. OK, it is better than nothing - but doesn't even cover a quarter of our costs. Sometimes people give us a higher donation privately, which is also very welcome. These people are listed on our README.

Total

On the assumption that our time is worthless (ha!) and that we only rarely go over our providers' API limits, and we get in some revenue, the cost of running OpenBenches is less than £300 per year.

That's not bad for a fun little hobby. People certainly spend more than that on Funkopops, vaping, and mechanical keyboards!

Nevertheless, I'm always slightly worried that we'll go viral and have an unexpectedly high bill from our API providers.

I would love to be able to hire a proper designer to make the site look a bit nicer. I also want to be able to buy a modern iPhone so that I can test it in the latest Safari.

If you have any suggestions for cutting costs, or non-scummy ways to help us raise funds, please drop a comment below.

#FOSDEM ask: if you are willing to help review and cut videos, please reach out to myself or @zev333

(Using my account for "more followers, more distribution" reasons)

Happy #ilovefs #ilovefreesoftwareday!

Switching to #opensource is the best thing you can gift your organization, your colleagues, your users, and us, the citizens.

This is a hard work, but necessary work. You're not just migrating software - you're building democracy and freedom for future generations.

In case you would like to learn more about leading change from closed source to #FOSS, I shared my best practices recently with the audience at #fosdem https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7YMJST-how-to-lead-change-to-open-source/

Reminder: ich bin heute leider auf dem Post Mortem zur #FOSDEM und kann deswegen nicht in #München #pruef #prüf en gehen.

Nehmt wen mit und helft meinen Platz zu besetzen.

Dankeschön!

We've just published a blog post about our time at #FOSDEM this year, in case you missed out - there's plenty to catch up on, from the session recordings.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/fosdem-2026-recap/

Wanted to see me speak at #FOSDEM but couldn't make it? Here's the two talks I gave!

How to Level Up the Fediverse
(co-presented with ActivityPub co-author @tsyesika !) https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HVJRNV-how_to_level_up_the_fediverse/

Lisp is Clay: the Power of Composable DSLs https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HDE7JZ-lisp-is-clay/

Can't get enough? Need more #spritely talks? We gave a bunch... 🧵

For some background, you can watch the talk @zormit and @blinry gave at #FOSDEM:

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/CQHN8T-teamtype-towards-a-collaborative-editing-protocol/

We'd especially love your input if you already have experience standardizing protocols, to point us towards best practices!

We've just published a blog post about our time at #FOSDEM this year, in case you missed out - there's plenty to catch up on, from the session recordings.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/fosdem-2026-recap/

We've just published a blog post about our time at #FOSDEM this year, in case you missed out - there's plenty to catch up on, from the session recordings.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/fosdem-2026-recap/

We've just published a blog post about our time at #FOSDEM this year, in case you missed out - there's plenty to catch up on, from the session recordings.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/fosdem-2026-recap/

We've just published a blog post about our time at #FOSDEM this year, in case you missed out - there's plenty to catch up on, from the session recordings.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/fosdem-2026-recap/

We've just published a blog post about our time at #FOSDEM this year, in case you missed out - there's plenty to catch up on, from the session recordings.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/fosdem-2026-recap/

We've just published a blog post about our time at #FOSDEM this year, in case you missed out - there's plenty to catch up on, from the session recordings.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/fosdem-2026-recap/

We've just published a blog post about our time at #FOSDEM this year, in case you missed out - there's plenty to catch up on, from the session recordings.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/fosdem-2026-recap/

We've just published a blog post about our time at #FOSDEM this year, in case you missed out - there's plenty to catch up on, from the session recordings.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/fosdem-2026-recap/

We've just published a blog post about our time at #FOSDEM this year, in case you missed out - there's plenty to catch up on, from the session recordings.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/fosdem-2026-recap/

Here are some other #FOSDEM talks I recommend:

Wastrel: WebAssembly Without the Runtime by @wingo (Wastrel uses #Spritely Hoot!) https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HT9HAG-wastrel-webassembly-without-the-runtime/

Willow - Protocols for an uncertain future (wins "Christine's award for most charming presentation") by @gwil https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/CVGZAV-willow/

Automerge + Keyhive Design Overview by @expede https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/BZ9CAE-automerge/

BLUE - A generic build-system crafted entirely in Guile by @shepherd https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/3A7VGM-blue/

raylib: a 12-year adventure as a solo-maintainer https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/883PBF-raylib-12-year-adventure/

Too many other good talks to list of course (and I haven't gotten through all of them) but all of the above talks totally rule

Here are some other #FOSDEM talks I recommend:

Wastrel: WebAssembly Without the Runtime by @wingo (Wastrel uses #Spritely Hoot!) https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HT9HAG-wastrel-webassembly-without-the-runtime/

Willow - Protocols for an uncertain future (wins "Christine's award for most charming presentation") by @gwil https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/CVGZAV-willow/

Automerge + Keyhive Design Overview by @expede https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/BZ9CAE-automerge/

BLUE - A generic build-system crafted entirely in Guile by @shepherd https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/3A7VGM-blue/

raylib: a 12-year adventure as a solo-maintainer https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/883PBF-raylib-12-year-adventure/

Too many other good talks to list of course (and I haven't gotten through all of them) but all of the above talks totally rule

Still more #spritely talks at #FOSDEM by @dthompson :

Functional reactive programming with propagators https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/9NQYKC-funcpropagators/

Beyond JavaScript: Wasm GC present and future https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/G3FRDA-beyond_javascript_wasm_gc_present_and_future/

Re-decentralizing the web platform with Wasm GC https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/GB387H-re-decentralizing_the_web_platform_with_wasm_gc/

Composing capability security and CRDTs https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SXSAML-brassica-chat-with-goblins-ocapn/

What's that? STILL not enough? ...

More #spritely talks at #FOSDEM by @tsyesika :

Guile Development Outside of Emacs https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/EKEFUU-guileoutsideofemacs/

OCapN: The secure, decentralized protocol of the future https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QPUXCQ-ocapn_the_secure_decentralized_protocol_of_the_future/

And yet, that's not all...

Here are some other #FOSDEM talks I recommend:

Wastrel: WebAssembly Without the Runtime by @wingo (Wastrel uses #Spritely Hoot!) https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HT9HAG-wastrel-webassembly-without-the-runtime/

Willow - Protocols for an uncertain future (wins "Christine's award for most charming presentation") by @gwil https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/CVGZAV-willow/

Automerge + Keyhive Design Overview by @expede https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/BZ9CAE-automerge/

BLUE - A generic build-system crafted entirely in Guile by @shepherd https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/3A7VGM-blue/

raylib: a 12-year adventure as a solo-maintainer https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/883PBF-raylib-12-year-adventure/

Too many other good talks to list of course (and I haven't gotten through all of them) but all of the above talks totally rule

Still more #spritely talks at #FOSDEM by @dthompson :

Functional reactive programming with propagators https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/9NQYKC-funcpropagators/

Beyond JavaScript: Wasm GC present and future https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/G3FRDA-beyond_javascript_wasm_gc_present_and_future/

Re-decentralizing the web platform with Wasm GC https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/GB387H-re-decentralizing_the_web_platform_with_wasm_gc/

Composing capability security and CRDTs https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SXSAML-brassica-chat-with-goblins-ocapn/

What's that? STILL not enough? ...

More #spritely talks at #FOSDEM by @tsyesika :

Guile Development Outside of Emacs https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/EKEFUU-guileoutsideofemacs/

OCapN: The secure, decentralized protocol of the future https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QPUXCQ-ocapn_the_secure_decentralized_protocol_of_the_future/

And yet, that's not all...

Wanted to see me speak at #FOSDEM but couldn't make it? Here's the two talks I gave!

How to Level Up the Fediverse
(co-presented with ActivityPub co-author @tsyesika !) https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HVJRNV-how_to_level_up_the_fediverse/

Lisp is Clay: the Power of Composable DSLs https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HDE7JZ-lisp-is-clay/

Can't get enough? Need more #spritely talks? We gave a bunch... 🧵

Wanted to see me speak at #FOSDEM but couldn't make it? Here's the two talks I gave!

How to Level Up the Fediverse
(co-presented with ActivityPub co-author @tsyesika !) https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HVJRNV-how_to_level_up_the_fediverse/

Lisp is Clay: the Power of Composable DSLs https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HDE7JZ-lisp-is-clay/

Can't get enough? Need more #spritely talks? We gave a bunch... 🧵

I don’t usually review hardware publicly but my personal #FOSDEM highlight forced my hand. I checked out the mecha comet meetup, and all I can say is: This thing is exceptionally well‑designed. Multiple iterations and each one smarter than the last. #comet #mechaComet

@mapache such a good read, TY! Perhaps it’s my attention, perhaps how good your writing is (I am quite sure it’s the latter!), but I added your blog’s RSS feed to my reader before even finishing the post.

This resonates so much with me: getting to know my bunch of fellow hackers was so instrumental to my growth and, ultimately, my own identity.

I love #FOSDEM but now I hate that I missed you there... I wanted to talk riddles with you! But I’ll make up for it, oh I will! 😆

@osuosl is raising funds to cover critical extra expenses that incurred while moving and modernizing their data center.

They host and maintain not only our gitlab instance, but also a bunch of services for a long list of important free software projects, including @alpinelinux, @armbian, #busybox, @chimera, #Debian, @fdroidorg, @fedora, #ffmpeg, #fosdem, #freedesktoporg, #gcc, @gentoo, @gnome, @inkscape, @kde, #kodi, @LineageOS, the #linux kernel, @llvm, #openbsd, #qemu, @reproducible_builds, @rust, #tor, #vlc and many more:
https://osuosl.org/communities/

Consider donating to them or boosting this post if you want to help them out. Thank you!

Can recommend: “The Linux Phone App Ecosystem” by 1peter10 (@linmob)

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/VH3GYN-linux-phone-app-ecosystem-2026/

#fosdem #fosdem26 #sailfishos #phosh #ubuntutouch #gnomemobile

I know it's a long shot but if someone who sees this found their way to Mastodon through one of the leaflets we distributed at #FOSDEM, I want to hear from you--what did you think of the leaflet? I need to generalize those for other events.

I know it's a long shot but if someone who sees this found their way to Mastodon through one of the leaflets we distributed at #FOSDEM, I want to hear from you--what did you think of the leaflet? I need to generalize those for other events.

Someone at #FOSDEM asked us to put some promotional materials on our website that they could print for an event. There is now a section for that on the Branding page with our first poster:

https://joinmastodon.org/branding

Another FOSDEM and hackathon are in the rear-view mirror, and it is hard to find words to describe how amazingly productive and fun the experience was! We met so many people at the postmarketOS stand, in the FOSS on Mobile devroom and at dinners in the evening. As always it is fun to put faces to nicknames and to talk about the Linux Mobile ecosystem, and figure out how to improve it in person.

Find photos and what we got done in the blog post:

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/02/10/fosdem-and-hackathon/

Thanks to all who came by or contributed towards making this possible!

#fosdem #linuxmobile #postmarketos

I know it's a long shot but if someone who sees this found their way to Mastodon through one of the leaflets we distributed at #FOSDEM, I want to hear from you--what did you think of the leaflet? I need to generalize those for other events.

@reiver

At #FOSDEM @evan presented tags.pub based on this idea..

https://github.com/social-web-foundation/tags.pub

I know it's a long shot but if someone who sees this found their way to Mastodon through one of the leaflets we distributed at #FOSDEM, I want to hear from you--what did you think of the leaflet? I need to generalize those for other events.

Here we go: @tbernard and @adz are at #fosdem to tell us their plan for a local first desktop, featuring @p2panda and Reflection (wich we fund in class 01).

Setting the stage: "2025 was the year everybody, even those who do not attend @fosdem, realized they are dependent on us tech. We have to organize strategically to change that!"

Someone at #FOSDEM asked us to put some promotional materials on our website that they could print for an event. There is now a section for that on the Branding page with our first poster:

https://joinmastodon.org/branding

I know it's a long shot but if someone who sees this found their way to Mastodon through one of the leaflets we distributed at #FOSDEM, I want to hear from you--what did you think of the leaflet? I need to generalize those for other events.

I know it's a long shot but if someone who sees this found their way to Mastodon through one of the leaflets we distributed at #FOSDEM, I want to hear from you--what did you think of the leaflet? I need to generalize those for other events.

Someone at #FOSDEM asked us to put some promotional materials on our website that they could print for an event. There is now a section for that on the Branding page with our first poster:

https://joinmastodon.org/branding

Someone at #FOSDEM asked us to put some promotional materials on our website that they could print for an event. There is now a section for that on the Branding page with our first poster:

https://joinmastodon.org/branding

Someone at #FOSDEM asked us to put some promotional materials on our website that they could print for an event. There is now a section for that on the Branding page with our first poster:

https://joinmastodon.org/branding

@fdroidorg haha, I didn't expect to make it to the newsletter when said "Thank you for existing" at #fosdem

I'm going through #fosdem 2026 videos and I need to point out the good work with the files themselves. We have the option of downloading .mp4 videos with older coded for old devices, but we have everything also encoded in modern av1 (using webm as container) which makes for very small files with good quality. I'm saving them directly to my jellyfin instance and watching one by one at my tv, popcorn in hand. Good job fosdem people!

Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI – it's all the same old BS, says veteran Red Hatter

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/08/waves_of_tech_bs/

After decades in the trenches, this engineer is done with hype cycles

<- by me on @theregister

#FOSDEM #CENTOSCONNECT

Someone at #FOSDEM asked us to put some promotional materials on our website that they could print for an event. There is now a section for that on the Branding page with our first poster:

https://joinmastodon.org/branding

Someone at #FOSDEM asked us to put some promotional materials on our website that they could print for an event. There is now a section for that on the Branding page with our first poster:

https://joinmastodon.org/branding

Someone at #FOSDEM asked us to put some promotional materials on our website that they could print for an event. There is now a section for that on the Branding page with our first poster:

https://joinmastodon.org/branding

Someone at #FOSDEM asked us to put some promotional materials on our website that they could print for an event. There is now a section for that on the Branding page with our first poster:

https://joinmastodon.org/branding

During #FOSDEM we launched a survey on #CRA Article 25 - Attestation

📄 This survey gathers input on how voluntary security attestation programmes for #FreeSoftware could work under Article 25 of the #CyberResilienceAct.

There are 27 questions (no need to answer all of them) plus additional thoughts in the free field are more than welcome

Please respond until 28 February! Don't forget to share
➡️ https://dialog-cybersicherheit.limesurvey.net/113884

During #FOSDEM I rediscovered #MechaComet. Cool #Linux 🐧 #handheld! It is currently running a #Kickstarter. So grab yours, while you can and if you want to know why I am so excited about it, check my blog 😉 https://michal.hrusecky.net/2026/02/mecha-comet/

Should #FOSDEM have a new hall for open source hardware, open culture art, etc traders? Lots of little bits and pieces being sold here and there but being able to browse wares would be cool.

Glad to get a reminder that @gwil's Willow presentation from #FOSDEM is up! This was a talk I tried to go to with @hongminhee and @2chanhaeng but we made it there right at the last 2 minutes cause it took too soo to find it in the maze of the campus.

Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI – it's all the same old BS, says veteran Red Hatter

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/08/waves_of_tech_bs/

After decades in the trenches, this engineer is done with hype cycles

<- by me on @theregister

#FOSDEM #CENTOSCONNECT

Hello, fediverse! We’re ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools), a nonprofit that makes open source trust & safety infra tools.

https://roost.tools

We recently openly released Osprey, the automated rules engine and investigation tool used in production by Discord and Bluesky.

We were at FOSDEM. And now we’re finally here on Mastodon! 👋

You can continue to follow @roost.tools as a direct bridge from our Bluesky account, but we’ll post more specifically for the fediverse directly over here, now.

#TrustAndSafety #OpenSource #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026

Hello, fediverse! We’re ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools), a nonprofit that makes open source trust & safety infra tools.

https://roost.tools

We recently openly released Osprey, the automated rules engine and investigation tool used in production by Discord and Bluesky.

We were at FOSDEM. And now we’re finally here on Mastodon! 👋

You can continue to follow @roost.tools as a direct bridge from our Bluesky account, but we’ll post more specifically for the fediverse directly over here, now.

#TrustAndSafety #OpenSource #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026

Monitor Air Quality and FOSDEM:
- https://paul.walko.org/blog/2026_01_25-meshtastic-fosdem-part1.html
- https://paul.walko.org/blog/2026-02-07_fosdem-part2.html

#fosdem

just watched this #FOSDEM #OpenLocalFirst Devroom presentation about https://hyper.media; a new attempt at a p2p web protocol with reading/writing, archiving and web of trust as primitives
https://youtu.be/3gI7-h0wAE8

I hope you enjoyed some of my pics from #FOSDEM's Social Web track. I have many more but I don't want to overwhelm your feed with them.

I have seen the fantastic photos @sturmsucht has taken and I cannot wait for him to share them. Keep an eye out and follow him.

Wishing you all a fantastic weekend! I can't believe FOSDEM was a week ago already 🥲

I hope you enjoyed some of my pics from #FOSDEM's Social Web track. I have many more but I don't want to overwhelm your feed with them.

I have seen the fantastic photos @sturmsucht has taken and I cannot wait for him to share them. Keep an eye out and follow him.

Wishing you all a fantastic weekend! I can't believe FOSDEM was a week ago already 🥲

Hello, fediverse! We’re ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools), a nonprofit that makes open source trust & safety infra tools.

https://roost.tools

We recently openly released Osprey, the automated rules engine and investigation tool used in production by Discord and Bluesky.

We were at FOSDEM. And now we’re finally here on Mastodon! 👋

You can continue to follow @roost.tools as a direct bridge from our Bluesky account, but we’ll post more specifically for the fediverse directly over here, now.

#TrustAndSafety #OpenSource #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026

#FOSDEM was a blast - Faces of Fosdem updated with the 2026 #portrait batch : https://toujoursdeja.fr/projects/faces-of-fosdem/2026.html <3 👋 h01ger Long live #opensource #fosdem2026

We come back from FOSDEM and suddenly we’re on the fediverse! 😀

We really did have a great time talking to and sharing ideas with all of the folks across ALL of the decentralized and federated platforms and protocols.

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #OpenSource

Hello, fediverse! We’re ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools), a nonprofit that makes open source trust & safety infra tools.

https://roost.tools

We recently openly released Osprey, the automated rules engine and investigation tool used in production by Discord and Bluesky.

We were at FOSDEM. And now we’re finally here on Mastodon! 👋

You can continue to follow @roost.tools as a direct bridge from our Bluesky account, but we’ll post more specifically for the fediverse directly over here, now.

#TrustAndSafety #OpenSource #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026

Hello, fediverse! We’re ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools), a nonprofit that makes open source trust & safety infra tools.

https://roost.tools

We recently openly released Osprey, the automated rules engine and investigation tool used in production by Discord and Bluesky.

We were at FOSDEM. And now we’re finally here on Mastodon! 👋

You can continue to follow @roost.tools as a direct bridge from our Bluesky account, but we’ll post more specifically for the fediverse directly over here, now.

#TrustAndSafety #OpenSource #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026

We come back from FOSDEM and suddenly we’re on the fediverse! 😀

We really did have a great time talking to and sharing ideas with all of the folks across ALL of the decentralized and federated platforms and protocols.

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #OpenSource

Hello, fediverse! We’re ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools), a nonprofit that makes open source trust & safety infra tools.

https://roost.tools

We recently openly released Osprey, the automated rules engine and investigation tool used in production by Discord and Bluesky.

We were at FOSDEM. And now we’re finally here on Mastodon! 👋

You can continue to follow @roost.tools as a direct bridge from our Bluesky account, but we’ll post more specifically for the fediverse directly over here, now.

#TrustAndSafety #OpenSource #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026

I was fortunate present my thoughts at #FOSDEM 2026. I think it went pretty well... though a little rushed.

It's at least a good survey of where I think we as a community need to head, and how my work on #Emissary meets each of these needs

Key Points:
* Bring creators to the Fediverse (#OnlinePayments)
* Work together to operate like a single unit (#FEP3b86)
* Killer Features they can't copy (#DataPortability)
* Whatever YOU do, go make the Fediverse better

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/CP7KWX-emissary-and-the-fediverse/

🤘🏻

I’m back from FOSDEM! Here’s a little blog post about our first time attending as ROOST:

https://cassidyjames.com/blog/roost-osprey-fosdem-2026/

#TrustAndSafety #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #OpenSource

I’m back from FOSDEM! Here’s a little blog post about our first time attending as ROOST:

https://cassidyjames.com/blog/roost-osprey-fosdem-2026/

#TrustAndSafety #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #OpenSource

This year’s FOSDEM was a great success for our team, even stronger than last year. Read more. https://furilabs.com/fosdem-2026-recap/

#fosdem #furilabs #linuxonmobile #flx1s #thankyou

My fosdem talk is up!

I make a case for more platforms to support the ActivityPub client API, and how we should look beyond microblogging for future growth of the ‘verse

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QK7XSV-activitypub-c2s/

#c2s #fosdem #fediverse #ActivityPub

My fosdem talk is up!

I make a case for more platforms to support the ActivityPub client API, and how we should look beyond microblogging for future growth of the ‘verse

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QK7XSV-activitypub-c2s/

#c2s #fosdem #fediverse #ActivityPub

Why do we have such a gender imbalance at #fosdem & in tech in general?

A real conversation.

Marty: Maria, what do you think about ABC?
Peter: I don't want to speak for Maria, but... (keeps talking for a few minutes).
Anna: Thank you for sharing your perspective, Peter, but I would love to hear Maria's perspective.

If you observe someone dominating a discussion and answering questions that aren't directed at them, please be an ally and moderate the conversation in an inclusive way🧡
#dei #deib

It’s out!
The video of my FOSDEM 2026 talk on decentralised badges + ActivityPub (BadgeFed) is now online 👀

Check it out here:

https://video.fosdem.org/2026/h2215/JEMNBZ-decentralised-badges-activitypub-badgefed.av1.webm

Part of the Social Web track:
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/social-web/

#FOSDEM #ActivityPub #Fediverse #BadgeFed

My #FOSDEM 2026 talk is out: @servo Streams reimplementation 🎥

Also, I was really happy to meet the Servo team in person at FOSDEM.

https://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/FOSDEM/video/2026/h1309/3J8GUD-servo-streams-reimplementation.mp4

Got my share of stickers from #FOSDEM, thank you Jordi!

Will put the PostmarketOS on the OSMC Vero2 TV-Box, as a riminder to hack/port it!

#thunderbird #postmarketos #openssl #osmc #vero2

Good morning Fedi friends,

I just finished selecting and color grading the photos I took this past weekend at #FOSDEM in the Social Web devroom.

There are some really nice ones of speakers and I look forward to sharing a few here...

But first: I wanna ask the speakers permission because... CONSENT.

So stay tuned 😊

Wishing everyone a great day!

Good morning Fedi friends,

I just finished selecting and color grading the photos I took this past weekend at #FOSDEM in the Social Web devroom.

There are some really nice ones of speakers and I look forward to sharing a few here...

But first: I wanna ask the speakers permission because... CONSENT.

So stay tuned 😊

Wishing everyone a great day!

This was a good look at what open source maintainers are having to put up with when when people use AI tools for reporting issues:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wYSwZ20NJU

Alternatively, on the @fosdem site: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/B7YKQ7-oss-in-spite-of-ai/

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #OpenSource

Hehe, I’m having way too much fun with this https://fossasia.org badge from @fosdem. How’s my tiny pixel art @roost.tools logo? 👀

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026

My fosdem talk is up!

I make a case for more platforms to support the ActivityPub client API, and how we should look beyond microblogging for future growth of the ‘verse

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QK7XSV-activitypub-c2s/

#c2s #fosdem #fediverse #ActivityPub

My fosdem talk is up!

I make a case for more platforms to support the ActivityPub client API, and how we should look beyond microblogging for future growth of the ‘verse

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QK7XSV-activitypub-c2s/

#c2s #fosdem #fediverse #ActivityPub

My fosdem talk is up!

I make a case for more platforms to support the ActivityPub client API, and how we should look beyond microblogging for future growth of the ‘verse

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QK7XSV-activitypub-c2s/

#c2s #fosdem #fediverse #ActivityPub

Ein Event braucht mindestens Zeit und Ort. Und vor allem über „Location“ haben wir bei der #FOSDEM diskutiert. Wie definiert man einen Ort? Über Längen- und Breitengrad? Mit IDs in OpenStreetMap? Mit Namen? Haben Orte einen Umfang oder sind sie ein Punkt? Was ist mit Orten in Orten, wie z.B. Saal 118 im Trakt D des Campus Solbusch der Uni Brüssel. Oder: Raum FOSDEM?

@sl007 @clemensg habt ihr nicht auch mit einem Projekt an Geo-Daten in ActivityPub gearbeitet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ieihyq3JbWs&t=7649s

My fosdem talk is up!

I make a case for more platforms to support the ActivityPub client API, and how we should look beyond microblogging for future growth of the ‘verse

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QK7XSV-activitypub-c2s/

#c2s #fosdem #fediverse #ActivityPub

My fosdem talk is up!

I make a case for more platforms to support the ActivityPub client API, and how we should look beyond microblogging for future growth of the ‘verse

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QK7XSV-activitypub-c2s/

#c2s #fosdem #fediverse #ActivityPub

My fosdem talk is up!

I make a case for more platforms to support the ActivityPub client API, and how we should look beyond microblogging for future growth of the ‘verse

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QK7XSV-activitypub-c2s/

#c2s #fosdem #fediverse #ActivityPub

My fosdem talk is up!

I make a case for more platforms to support the ActivityPub client API, and how we should look beyond microblogging for future growth of the ‘verse

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QK7XSV-activitypub-c2s/

#c2s #fosdem #fediverse #ActivityPub

My fosdem talk is up!

I make a case for more platforms to support the ActivityPub client API, and how we should look beyond microblogging for future growth of the ‘verse

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QK7XSV-activitypub-c2s/

#c2s #fosdem #fediverse #ActivityPub

My fosdem talk is up!

I make a case for more platforms to support the ActivityPub client API, and how we should look beyond microblogging for future growth of the ‘verse

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QK7XSV-activitypub-c2s/

#c2s #fosdem #fediverse #ActivityPub

Why do we have such a gender imbalance at #fosdem & in tech in general?

A real conversation.

Marty: Maria, what do you think about ABC?
Peter: I don't want to speak for Maria, but... (keeps talking for a few minutes).
Anna: Thank you for sharing your perspective, Peter, but I would love to hear Maria's perspective.

If you observe someone dominating a discussion and answering questions that aren't directed at them, please be an ally and moderate the conversation in an inclusive way🧡
#dei #deib

My fosdem talk is up!

I make a case for more platforms to support the ActivityPub client API, and how we should look beyond microblogging for future growth of the ‘verse

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QK7XSV-activitypub-c2s/

#c2s #fosdem #fediverse #ActivityPub

"Evolving git for the next decade" by Patrick Steinhardt from #FOSDEM 2026 is a good one.

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HTJK33-evolving_git_for_the_next_decade/

Skip’s @marcprux gave an excellent talk at #fosdem on the history and state of Swift on Android (without all the extras that Skip provides):

https://youtu.be/mZNIAuQ7s7k?si=gTnahvOHZp3_he1a

Good morning Fedi friends,

I just finished selecting and color grading the photos I took this past weekend at #FOSDEM in the Social Web devroom.

There are some really nice ones of speakers and I look forward to sharing a few here...

But first: I wanna ask the speakers permission because... CONSENT.

So stay tuned 😊

Wishing everyone a great day!

Slides from my #wayland input method presentation are up now!

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/MVVELP-wayland_input_method_wrap_up/

I'm impressed by the new activity on input methods! Is that the usual post-talk excitement, or will things switch to a new gear?
We'll know in a week or so. Thank you all anyway :)

#FOSDEM #fosdem2025 #fosdem26

Ah nuts! Looks like the video of my #FOSDEM talk has a chunk missing.
I never seem to have any luck preserving my lightning talks.
Oh well, if you'd like to see me talk about psychogeography, open data, and crowd-sourcing - please invite me to your next conference 😄

"Evolving git for the next decade" by Patrick Steinhardt from #FOSDEM 2026 is a good one.

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HTJK33-evolving_git_for_the_next_decade/

#FOSDEM 2026 was awesome! 🧇

Very cool to meet lots of interesting people :) 🍻 🫂

Video & Slides of my talk about SucréLA are online! 🎉

SucréLA: open source usb 3.0 logic analyzer based on FPGA https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/WSKHHU-sucrela_open_source_usb_3_0_logic_analyzer_based_on_fpga/

#FPGA #opensource #hardware #logiciellibre #sigrok #litex #soc #pcb #usb

#FOSDEM 2026 was awesome! 🧇

Very cool to meet lots of interesting people :) 🍻 🫂

Video & Slides of my talk about SucréLA are online! 🎉

SucréLA: open source usb 3.0 logic analyzer based on FPGA https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/WSKHHU-sucrela_open_source_usb_3_0_logic_analyzer_based_on_fpga/

#FPGA #opensource #hardware #logiciellibre #sigrok #litex #soc #pcb #usb

I'm a simple man, I see a local Brussels Star Wars inspired beer, I order it. En Stoemelings Jawa IPA

#FOSDEM #beer #CraftBeer #Brussels #microbrewery #StarWars #BeersOfMastodon #Beerstodon #BeerGeek

My Main track talk at #FOSDEM has now published it's video:

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/9QVUEC-strategy_for_trusting_your_employer_in_open_source_a_historical_approach/

As ever, I really enjoyed my time at the conference and can't thank the organisers enough for allowing me to present somewhat controversial (but hopefully interesting) viewpoints that don't get traction at other conferences.

My Main track talk at #FOSDEM has now published it's video:

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/9QVUEC-strategy_for_trusting_your_employer_in_open_source_a_historical_approach/

As ever, I really enjoyed my time at the conference and can't thank the organisers enough for allowing me to present somewhat controversial (but hopefully interesting) viewpoints that don't get traction at other conferences.

The #FOSDEM talk from @haubles and myself about Mastodon’s upcoming community governance plans; our vision, mission and values; and updates to the server recommendations, is now available to watch. I was honoured to be asked to co-present this session.

More to come on all of these topics over the coming weeks, on our blog and on the main project account.

I’ll be posting about the other sessions from the #SocialWeb Devroom over the next few weeks, as well.

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HJYRFF-tending-the-herd/

Here's the second published video of my FOSDEM talks, about VM Integrations in systemd:

https://video.fosdem.org/2026/h2213/G7VMEN-vm_integration_in_systemd.av1.webm

one more to come, stay tuned.

#systemd #fosdem #fosdem2026

You can see the couple of slides that got missed at the start lol

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026

Here's the first published video of my FOSDEM talks, about native OCI support in systemd:

https://video.fosdem.org/2026/ua2118/ZKKQWC-native_oci_container_support_in_systemd.av1.webm

two more to come, stay tuned.

#systemd #fosdem #fosdem2026

My highlight of Fosdem26 was our panel ‘The Fediverse and the EU Digital Services Act: Solutions to the Challenges of Modern Social Media?' ✨

Thanks for giving me the possibility to speak about our @offene_netzwerke demands.

A huge thank you @jmaris for organising the panel & his excellent moderation. 👏

Thanks @alexandrageese member of the 🇪🇺 parliament, who took the time to join us & the FOSS community for this important debate over the weekend.

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#fosdem2026 #fosdem #fediverse #dsa

Just found out about Digital Freedom Foundation @dff which organises freedom days for software, hardware and documents (Reminds me of #DIDay action in Germany rn! https://di.day/)

https://digitalfreedoms.org/

From their map, seems to be heavily Italian! Reminds me of another #FOSDEM talk from another network of mostly Italian projects.

The ecology of freeware in Europe is super rich and varied.

My highlight of Fosdem26 was our panel ‘The Fediverse and the EU Digital Services Act: Solutions to the Challenges of Modern Social Media?' ✨

Thanks for giving me the possibility to speak about our @offene_netzwerke demands.

A huge thank you @jmaris for organising the panel & his excellent moderation. 👏

Thanks @alexandrageese member of the 🇪🇺 parliament, who took the time to join us & the FOSS community for this important debate over the weekend.

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#fosdem2026 #fosdem #fediverse #dsa

My highlight of Fosdem26 was our panel ‘The Fediverse and the EU Digital Services Act: Solutions to the Challenges of Modern Social Media?' ✨

Thanks for giving me the possibility to speak about our @offene_netzwerke demands.

A huge thank you @jmaris for organising the panel & his excellent moderation. 👏

Thanks @alexandrageese member of the 🇪🇺 parliament, who took the time to join us & the FOSS community for this important debate over the weekend.

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#fosdem2026 #fosdem #fediverse #dsa

EEEE the talk @sableraph and I gave at #FOSDEM. Long live @processing

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7TY3JV-processing/

I can't say enough good things about #FOSDEM. It was my first time visiting #Brussels and I was so impressed by the city and its people

I learned so much from many amazing speakers, and came home with a huge to-do list. They even gave me the microphone for a bit 😅 I'll link to the video as soon as it's available

MY BIG TAKEAWAY
The world feels dark - esp. in the 🇺🇸 right now. But FOSDEM filled me with light, and hope for the #Fediverse and our future. There's a new energy here. Let's get to it.

FOSDEM is over and we would like to thank everyone who came and visited our stand.

We sold all of the phone bundles https://furilabs.com/shop/flx1s-bundle/ we took along which was a fantastic result. #fosdem #furilabs #linuxonmobile #flx1s #thankyou

My highlight of Fosdem26 was our panel ‘The Fediverse and the EU Digital Services Act: Solutions to the Challenges of Modern Social Media?' ✨

Thanks for giving me the possibility to speak about our @offene_netzwerke demands.

A huge thank you @jmaris for organising the panel & his excellent moderation. 👏

Thanks @alexandrageese member of the 🇪🇺 parliament, who took the time to join us & the FOSS community for this important debate over the weekend.

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#fosdem2026 #fosdem #fediverse #dsa

My highlight of Fosdem26 was our panel ‘The Fediverse and the EU Digital Services Act: Solutions to the Challenges of Modern Social Media?' ✨

Thanks for giving me the possibility to speak about our @offene_netzwerke demands.

A huge thank you @jmaris for organising the panel & his excellent moderation. 👏

Thanks @alexandrageese member of the 🇪🇺 parliament, who took the time to join us & the FOSS community for this important debate over the weekend.

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#fosdem2026 #fosdem #fediverse #dsa

My highlight of Fosdem26 was our panel ‘The Fediverse and the EU Digital Services Act: Solutions to the Challenges of Modern Social Media?' ✨

Thanks for giving me the possibility to speak about our @offene_netzwerke demands.

A huge thank you @jmaris for organising the panel & his excellent moderation. 👏

Thanks @alexandrageese member of the 🇪🇺 parliament, who took the time to join us & the FOSS community for this important debate over the weekend.

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#fosdem2026 #fosdem #fediverse #dsa

My highlight of Fosdem26 was our panel ‘The Fediverse and the EU Digital Services Act: Solutions to the Challenges of Modern Social Media?' ✨

Thanks for giving me the possibility to speak about our @offene_netzwerke demands.

A huge thank you @jmaris for organising the panel & his excellent moderation. 👏

Thanks @alexandrageese member of the 🇪🇺 parliament, who took the time to join us & the FOSS community for this important debate over the weekend.

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#fosdem2026 #fosdem #fediverse #dsa

The recording of my presentation at #FOSDEM "Sequoia git: Making Signed Commits Matter" has been published!

Thanks a lot to all the @fosdem volunteers for organizing another amazing FOSDEM!

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/KFSUCW-sequoia-git/

#pgp

https://spectra.video/w/7hsRkrevhuTyV1q1qxkPjM

"Centralised systems were designed with the best of intentions, but were turned against us anyway. And peer-to-peer systems will be exactly the same.

How do we make the next generation of protocols more difficult to weaponise?”

Here’s a clean recording of my #FOSDEM talk “Willow - Protocols for an uncertain future”. This talk was a real labour of love, hope you enjoy it!!!

My highlight of Fosdem26 was our panel ‘The Fediverse and the EU Digital Services Act: Solutions to the Challenges of Modern Social Media?' ✨

Thanks for giving me the possibility to speak about our @offene_netzwerke demands.

A huge thank you @jmaris for organising the panel & his excellent moderation. 👏

Thanks @alexandrageese member of the 🇪🇺 parliament, who took the time to join us & the FOSS community for this important debate over the weekend.

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#fosdem2026 #fosdem #fediverse #dsa

My highlight of Fosdem26 was our panel ‘The Fediverse and the EU Digital Services Act: Solutions to the Challenges of Modern Social Media?' ✨

Thanks for giving me the possibility to speak about our @offene_netzwerke demands.

A huge thank you @jmaris for organising the panel & his excellent moderation. 👏

Thanks @alexandrageese member of the 🇪🇺 parliament, who took the time to join us & the FOSS community for this important debate over the weekend.

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#fosdem2026 #fosdem #fediverse #dsa

@krisbuytaert
There was an interesting talk at #FOSDEM in th Social Web room where it was mentioned that the way the #fediverse is going, with different servers geared towards specific data, is problematic. The idea was that all the extra data/fields should be pluggable in the standard #activitypub and be available on any server without having to create new accountsand servers for any different type of data. To display that data, different frontends can then be used with the same account.

Reading the Room: What Europe’s MySQL Community Is Really Saying: https://mariadb.org/reading-the-room-what-europes-mysql-community-is-really-saying/ #mariadb #opensource #database #mysql #percona #fosdem #fosdem2026

Reading the Room: What Europe’s MySQL Community Is Really Saying: https://mariadb.org/reading-the-room-what-europes-mysql-community-is-really-saying/ #mariadb #opensource #database #mysql #percona #fosdem #fosdem2026

Is anyone actually on Nolto .. I would expect it to have gotten a boost after #fosdem and #cfgmgmtcamp

The #SocialWeb track at #FOSDEM kicked off with a talk by @pfefferle that covered WordPress and a "single click" philosophy to set up an ActivityPub instance. Matthias also talked about how blogs and similar sites can broaden the reach of the open social web - this was one of the themes of the day.

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/XFTETA-federated-wordpress/

The #SocialWeb track at #FOSDEM kicked off with a talk by @pfefferle that covered WordPress and a "single click" philosophy to set up an ActivityPub instance. Matthias also talked about how blogs and similar sites can broaden the reach of the open social web - this was one of the themes of the day.

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/XFTETA-federated-wordpress/

I hope the Mastodon team can attend FediCon this summer, I know it's a long journey, but I'd seriously lose it if I was able to meet @Gargron and team in person.

I'm the biggest Mastodon fangirl, I already have some early toots that I want them to sign 😅

#FediCon #FOSDEM #Mastodon

I hope the Mastodon team can attend FediCon this summer, I know it's a long journey, but I'd seriously lose it if I was able to meet @Gargron and team in person.

I'm the biggest Mastodon fangirl, I already have some early toots that I want them to sign 😅

#FediCon #FOSDEM #Mastodon

Back from #FOSDEM. It was SO fun, and I'm really proud I got to give a talk.
I feel really inspired and far more connected to the open source community.
So much work ahead...

My #FOSDEM 2026 talk is out: @servo Streams reimplementation 🎥

Also, I was really happy to meet the Servo team in person at FOSDEM.

https://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/FOSDEM/video/2026/h1309/3J8GUD-servo-streams-reimplementation.mp4

Back home from #fosdem. Great talks, lovely people and cool stickers. We now have lychee stickers! Thank you @nlnet and @NGIZero for printing the stickers and for supporting lychee in the first place.

Back home from #fosdem. Great talks, lovely people and cool stickers. We now have lychee stickers! Thank you @nlnet and @NGIZero for printing the stickers and for supporting lychee in the first place.

On our way home from #FOSDEM. Met so many amazing people form the #fediverse community. Thanks to everyone for the discussions on events federation and more. @linos @Bonfire @mayel @ivan @liaizon @lesion @michael the folks from Mobilizion and anyone I forgot.

Since you can never be _everywhere_ you want to be at #FOSDEM, sometimes you have to watch back some of the dev room talks you missed.

@a from the @rustfoundation gave a great talk: A phishy case study - attacks on crates.io and others (namely @pypi and npmjs.com )

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/GFA3RJ-a_phishy_case_study/

Go watch it.

Announcement: The 3rd Berlin #Fediverse Day will take place again in Berlin from September 11 to September 13, 2026. 🚀 We are very excited and more information will follow as soon as possible. 👨‍👨‍👧‍👧

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Ankündigung, der 3. Berliner Fediverse Day findet vom 11.09.-13.09.2026 wieder in #Berlin statt. 🚀 Wir freuen uns schon sehr und weitere Informationen kommen, asap. 👨‍👨‍👧‍👧

#digitalsovereignty #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #SocialWeb #SocialWebFOSDEM #SocialWebFOSDEM2026

The #SocialWeb track at #FOSDEM kicked off with a talk by @pfefferle that covered WordPress and a "single click" philosophy to set up an ActivityPub instance. Matthias also talked about how blogs and similar sites can broaden the reach of the open social web - this was one of the themes of the day.

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/XFTETA-federated-wordpress/

The @roost.tools talk from @fosdem is up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOoUfaInsaE

We’ve uploaded it to YouTube for convenience, or you can view it and the slides on the FOSDEM event page:

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/U7ABHE-roost-osprey/

Give it a watch to learn a bit about trust and safety and Osprey, our open source automated rules engine and investigation tool!

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #OpenSource #TrustAndSafety

Random #fosdem notes. Met a nice dev from @ente #ente with whom I discussed a subtle bug on GitHub a few weeks ago (thanks for the now released fix!). Also met @liaizon. Thanks for reaching out; it's always cool to discuss the integration #activitypub in wikis!